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Hi Dylan. I have been an Evernote user since 2010 and have over 2500 notes in several notebooks. I am an avid user for business and personal. Have rediscovered Apple Notes now that the latest releases over the past couple of years have made it not just usable and pleasurable but powerful. I have begun to use it again for the personal side of my life. In order for me to make a final switchover though for the business I would like to know your opinion on Apple Notes handling of Tasks. I believe I have a full understanding of how to use Apple Reminders to link to Notes (learned from another of your videos) but from what I know I think it falls short with what I am able to do with Tasks in Evernote and the way Evernote handles them. Evernote's method of "collating" Tasks from any single note into a single space is exceptional, very powerful and extremely useful to me. Leaving that capability behind for my business work is a non-starter. I have not seen an equivalent in Apple Notes separately or combined with Reminders that comes close. At best it would be kluge. Would be curious to know what you think of this.
Thanks for all your information packed videos! I’m so happy to have discovered you. I’ve had Apple products from practically the beginning of time, yet it’s been so difficult to keep up with all the changes and improvements of the years. My productivity has certainly suffered because I haven’t used these products to their fullest potential. I’m looking forward to watching many more of your videos and putting all your knowledge to good use. Thanks once again
Hi Elizabeth, Thanks for that great tip. I really appreciate it and it goes a long way to helping us make more videos like this. There's tons of valuable videos on this site to teach you all sorts of things, but please reach out and let me know what you want to learn the most about, so that I can help you out. Also, if you are interested, I teach live classes through my monthly membership system, and I have a current promotion offering 30 days free. Our next live class is this upcoming Friday at 9:00 AM Pacific time... and if you sign up for the free 30 days, you could join that class and really supercharge your learning. www.themacwhisperer.com/tmw-30daysfree
As one who loves trivia and APPRECIATES Y-O-U I have to add that the 'three dots' are an ELLIPSIS. Keep your superb tutorials coming. I wish I'd have discovered you LONG ago. Very well presented.
Oh my friend… I laughed quite hard when you shared this tip. I am 100% aware that the three dots are called an ellipses. I am part of the Gen X generation that uses ellipses in all of my writings, to the point that people are constantly rolling their eyes and asking why I needed to do an ellipses rather than a comma or a period. And you are verycorrect… That’s exactly what the three dots are. But you and I are amongst the minority of knowing that it’s called an ellipses. If I called it an ellipses Regularly in my videos I would have 1000 comments asking what that is… So thank you for knowing… thank you for pointing it out… thank you for the laugh.. and of course thank you for watching (did you see what I did there…).
This is really helpful! One thing I’m still trying to get my head wrapped around is how to conceptualize organizing folders in the Notes app vs organization of the folders on my hard drive generally. Does your folder structure in Notes mirror the folder structure on your hard drive? Do you think of each as having different purposes?
Enjoying your series on Notes and looking forward to more. In your video when using the microphone to add items to lists, when you pause and then continue, Notes creates a new line item. When I do that, the first item on the list just continues and all runs together. Are you doing something off screen to drop to a new line or am I missing something? .
There are two ways you can create a new line, I use both and I’ve also edited the video for simplicity… The two ways are clicking the return button after you say a line, and then continue with the next item. Or you can use the verbal command “new line” and it will add it for you.
Excellent video. I learned more about ways to use the Notes app. I have a special request. Would you be able to do videos on integrating Siri shortcuts with the Notes app? I have clients that are visually impaired and they want a writing system. I have integrated some shortcut functionality with the Notes app to create basic notes, but it would be nice to know of some more hands-free note taking options. Thank you! 🙏🏿
Great suggestion! I'll add it to my list of videos to film, but I warn you, that list is pretty long at this point. And I've got a handful of priority videos for the next couple of months. But it's definitely something I will work on.
Thank you for your very informative video. I’ve been searching for a good note-taking app for quite some time. You showed me how to use one I already have but didn't know much about. Subscribed!
So glad to hear about it! Keep your eyes open for the other videos in this series that will fill in the other gaps to make this note-taking app a game changer! Please let me know if you have any questions or need any additional help.
Hi, this is very informative video.. Appreciate your efforts. Please make this type of Playlist for Calendar & Reminder. Waiting for this and your next video Thanks...🙂
Yes, I’m planning on doing a playlist for calendars, reminders, photos, messages, and a whole ton of other apps. Please let me know if there’s anything else you’d like me to teach.
@@TheMacWhisperer Thanks for your reply.. I am using Notes, Calendar and reminder for improve my work efficiency daily...IOS 18 has many new features for these apps. Will wait for your videos....
I’m a new listener. I love your content ❤. How do I save the content of my Notes to Dropbox, I know it saves it to ICloud but if I don’t have enough storage I want to save it on Dropbox. Thank you😊
You'd have to manually export each and every note into Dropbox to make that work, which is time-consuming and unwieldy. Notes is made to sync with iCloud, and it doesn't take up that much space. In my personal opinion, if you don't have enough storage on iCloud, get more ($12-$120 a year is worth its weight in gold). It means you never have to worry about things getting lost because you have plenty of space to backup all your devices, everything synchronizes automatically across all of your devices, and it does its job without you needing to do anything. If you want to move it all to Dropbox, it will remove it from being synched in Notes, and won't really save you any storage space. You would need to go to each note, click Share > Click Print > Click Share again to make it a PDF > and Point it to Dropbox. It's going to be a long arduous task that you'll have to do on a regular basis, or just pay an extra $12 or so a year to Apple and call it a day. I always find it funny how much work, time, and effort people will put themselves through to save the small price of increasing their iCloud storage space. Just my 2 cents.
Believe me, it will pay dividends that you aren't even aware of to simplify your life in this way. If you lean into the Apple ecosystem and how iCloud works, it makes everything simpler, especially when dealing with notes and photos.
You’ll be surprised at how good the app really is. I have a client who was a diehard pages fanatic and when I flipped her over to Notes after 10 years of talking to her about it she was blown away by how much she could do in such an easier way than you do with most word processers. Keep watching, there’s more to come.
Great video. So easy to follow -very detailed! I have been using notes for a while (insteqd of notion) but still learned something in this first video. I am looking forward to more. One QUESTION: I upgraded to IOS 18.1 and have iPhone 13 Pro Max and have 149.44 GB of memory available, but I didn’t get the invite to the Ai waitlist. Do you know what I can do to get Ai for my phone?
Apple Intelligence will only be available for the iPhone 15 Pro and later. The 13 Pro doesn't have the capable processor and resources to manage AI being done on your phone. Apple's never going to allow Apple Intelligence on any earlier phones than the 15 Pro, so the only way you can do it is by getting yourself a more current phone. Sorry 🤷♂️
I always keep my phone on the latest operating system... and in this case I am on the iOS 18.2 beta that was released about a week ago. Many of the things you will see on my phone are either because I'm on the beta, I'm on Apple intelligence, or because I'm on an iPhone 16 pro. What phone/operating system are you on?
@@adco I totally get it. I run betas specifically so that I can be ahead of other people's issues and know how to solve them. If I weren't in this business, I'd stay a million miles away from the beta releases because they kill my battery life and have a million little glitches and bugs that sometimes never get worked out.
You absolutely can export notes. You can export them to a PDF by clicking on the share button, then click print, then click share again you will see the option to save it as a PDF and then you can export it anywhere you like.
My biggest question is, can we use Apple notes to take notes for school or college? i mean can we? i ask because idk if its a good idea or only for taking short notes
I've been using Apple Notes to take notes for any classes I've been on for motre than a decades now. I've used it at live seminars and conferences, and within classes. I can do it right from my phone, or from an iPad or computer... and it's not just for simple short notes. If you look at some of the formatting tools that I shared in the second video (th-cam.com/video/VCeKovPCm0I/w-d-xo.html) you will see that you can really make it into a robust note. Not just a couple of quick lines. And if you have an iPad and a pencil, it's even better. Hope that helps!
Thanks for your excellent videos. Is there a way to watch and listen without the background music? It’s really distracting. And no, I can’t chew gum whilst walking either 😢
You know it's hard to please everyone. When I don't have music, people ask for it, when I do have music, people want it gone. I'm trying to split the difference by finding music that isn't too distracting and isn't too loud, so that it doesn't have to compete with my voice. It's a learning process, and I passed your notes on to my editors who hopefully will address it in our future videos. Thanks for watching!
I noticed that your notes app has phone recordings and also a different selection on the bottom. I use the iPhone iPhone 14 Pro Max do I need to upgrade my iPhone to the iPhone 15 to use Apple Intelligence?
My phone is on iOS 18.2, which is the beta release. iOS 18.1 was fully released last Monday. Apple Intelligence is a part of iOS 18.1, but Apple Intelligence is only available on the iPhone 15 Pro and later... So while you can upgrade to the latest operating system, the iPhone 14 will not get the Apple Intelligence features... In spite of many people asking and assuming that eventually Apple will change that, I'll straight up tell you that Apple will never change that decision, and Apple Intelligence will never come to any phone earlier than the iPhone 15 Pro. If Apple Intelligence is important to you, you may want to upgrade... That being said, please note that Apple Intelligence will be rolled out over the next 12-18 months, with new features being released every update... So a lot of people have decided to wait to upgrade to a newer phone and tell all of the Apple Intelligence features are fully released sometime next year.
Thanks, it's a huge milestone... but I've definitely upped my release schedule recently, so I'm now eyeing the 200th video... Any recommendations or suggestions on the topic?
Thanks! I'm glad you found the tips useful and appreciate the support. Any specific tips or tools you’d like me to explore more fully? This was the first video in the series did you catch the second one I released yesterday? The third and fourth will be released this weekend.
Hi Alan. I always keep my phone on the latest operating system and usually on the upcoming beta operating system. This video was shot with iOS 18, which your iPhone 12 is fully capable of supporting. My phone is currently on iOS 18.2, so you might see some differences, and since I have an iPhone 16 Pro, you'll also see Apple Intelligence features that are not available on the 12 Pro. Hope that answers your questions!
- If you don't have any folders, you won't see the iCloud folder. - If your iCloud account is named something else (like.Mac or Apple), it will say that instead. - If you are not using iCloud to synchronize your Apple Notes, it won't say iCloud, it will say Google or something else. If the latter is the case, you should definitely consider migrating those notes into the Apple ecosystem. For more information, go to Settings
I used Notes to save everything. As an engineering student while working in finance profession, and having several hobbies, my Notes weight 20 GB on iCloud. Eventually, I will need searching TH-cam for how to down size Notes and backup Notes to an alternative memory.
Rather than trying to export them my recommendation is to go into your notes click in the search field and search for notes with attachments. Those are the ones that are bringing up the larger size. You can probably export or delete some of those to bring the size down. Moving forward, I recommend people copy and paste the text of Attachments rather than the attachments themselves whenever possible. Adding the attachment is a great function but overused creates a slow and clunky experience. Copying and pasting text directly into the notes app eliminate the weight issue and allows it to operate more fully. There are a lot of ways you can export your notes library by saving things as PDFs or moving them off of the program so that you don’t have to Stop using it all together.
Here’s one of my notes; - [ ] Can’t move info from one note to another - have to copy paste and then go back and delete - [ ] Can’t manually change order of notes in All iCloud list. Very limited sorting options. - [ ] Can’t write in different colors and highlight - [ ] Does not play with Reminders app - [ ] Cannot highlight text - [ ] Cannot change text color
I don't disagree with any of the notes you have, but I will address them here: 1. Cutting and pasting is an efficient way to move things from one note to another. If you cut the entire note, you won't need to go back and delete it because it will delete itself - notes don't allow empty notes to exist when there's no text on it. 2. If you pin a note, you can change the order by putting the important ones up top. Otherwise, you can sort by date added, date edited, or by title. If you want more manual options, create a folder and put the important notes into that folder, so that you know where they are. 3. As of iOS 18, you can highlight on the phone, you could always change colors from the computer. 4. Everybody wants notes and reminders to be combined, but to me they are two very different programs. Notes is for things that I want to refer back to and store forever. Reminders is for things I want to accomplish. There actually is a way to link them together, if you have a note and you click on the share button you can share it directly to reminders, so that the reminders app will prompt you about that note at a specific date and time. If you want the notes that you create in notes to be in reminders, you should just put them in reminders to begin with. 5. As I said in #3, as of iOS 18 you can highlight notes on your phone or iPad. 6. As I said in #3, "If you want to change the text color, it has to be done on the computer. Yes, that's annoying... but it's really the only major issue on your list that I don't have a solution for unless you just do it from the computer. (And if you don't have an Apple computer, I understand your frustration... but if you do, you have many more formatting and adjustment tools there that will transfer directly over to the iPhone and iPad Notes app.) Thanks for sharing your notes about notes. Let me know if I can help you address any of those issues or give additional tools. And if you want to know more about my thoughts around notes and reminders being combined, check out this video: th-cam.com/video/jMfw1TWbr8o/w-d-xo.html
Wow! Your screen grab of your phone (I assume it's yours?) shows 413 unread emails, 50 missed phone calls and 36 unread text messages?! Dude, that would drive me crazy. Good content here, though 😆
The joke about that is, at any given time I'm usually pretty close to 0 on all my notifications. But, when I film videos (which I do all day once a week), I turn all of my notifications off so that I can focus and work. It's kind of like you caught me with my pants down. By the point in the day this video was shot I was behind on EVERYTHING. But within an hour of finishing shooting I was caught up, but the screen capture recorded my dirty little secret. It's funny because I know people who have tens of thousands of unread messages and hundreds of missed phone calls - so I know what you mena about it driving you crazy!!!! That was just a few hours of notifications for me.
Oh my gosh! Great value in this video - but 3K notes! 400+ unread emails… I’m taking a Xanax just looking at your files. 😅 All good info though. Quantity is only a problem if it’s disorganized.
Click the gear icon at the bottom right of the video (when you hover your mouse over it) and select playback speed. Try three-quarter or one-half speed.
Thank you for that. It's pretty funny because half of the viewers say I move too slow and the other half say I move too fast. Adjusting the speed is the way to find your proper pacing. Thanks for helping out!
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Hi Dylan. I have been an Evernote user since 2010 and have over 2500 notes in several notebooks. I am an avid user for business and personal. Have rediscovered Apple Notes now that the latest releases over the past couple of years have made it not just usable and pleasurable but powerful. I have begun to use it again for the personal side of my life.
In order for me to make a final switchover though for the business I would like to know your opinion on Apple Notes handling of Tasks. I believe I have a full understanding of how to use Apple Reminders to link to Notes (learned from another of your videos) but from what I know I think it falls short with what I am able to do with Tasks in Evernote and the way Evernote handles them. Evernote's method of "collating" Tasks from any single note into a single space is exceptional, very powerful and extremely useful to me. Leaving that capability behind for my business work is a non-starter. I have not seen an equivalent in Apple Notes separately or combined with Reminders that comes close. At best it would be kluge. Would be curious to know what you think of this.
Thanks for all your information packed videos! I’m so happy to have discovered you. I’ve had Apple products from practically the beginning of time, yet it’s been so difficult to keep up with all the changes and improvements of the years. My productivity has certainly suffered because I haven’t used these products to their fullest potential. I’m looking forward to watching many more of your videos and putting all your knowledge to good use. Thanks once again
Hi Elizabeth,
Thanks for that great tip. I really appreciate it and it goes a long way to helping us make more videos like this. There's tons of valuable videos on this site to teach you all sorts of things, but please reach out and let me know what you want to learn the most about, so that I can help you out.
Also, if you are interested, I teach live classes through my monthly membership system, and I have a current promotion offering 30 days free. Our next live class is this upcoming Friday at 9:00 AM Pacific time... and if you sign up for the free 30 days, you could join that class and really supercharge your learning.
www.themacwhisperer.com/tmw-30daysfree
As one who loves trivia and APPRECIATES Y-O-U I have to add that the 'three dots' are an ELLIPSIS. Keep your superb tutorials coming. I wish I'd have discovered you LONG ago. Very well presented.
Oh my friend… I laughed quite hard when you shared this tip. I am 100% aware that the three dots are called an ellipses. I am part of the Gen X generation that uses ellipses in all of my writings, to the point that people are constantly rolling their eyes and asking why I needed to do an ellipses rather than a comma or a period.
And you are verycorrect… That’s exactly what the three dots are. But you and I are amongst the minority of knowing that it’s called an ellipses. If I called it an ellipses Regularly in my videos I would have 1000 comments asking what that is…
So thank you for knowing… thank you for pointing it out… thank you for the laugh.. and of course thank you for watching (did you see what I did there…).
This is really helpful! One thing I’m still trying to get my head wrapped around is how to conceptualize organizing folders in the Notes app vs organization of the folders on my hard drive generally. Does your folder structure in Notes mirror the folder structure on your hard drive? Do you think of each as having different purposes?
Enjoying your series on Notes and looking forward to more. In your video when using the microphone to add items to lists, when you pause and then continue, Notes creates a new line item. When I do that, the first item on the list just continues and all runs together. Are you doing something off screen to drop to a new line or am I missing something? .
There are two ways you can create a new line, I use both and I’ve also edited the video for simplicity…
The two ways are clicking the return button after you say a line, and then continue with the next item. Or you can use the verbal command “new line” and it will add it for you.
Great video! Even though I’ve been using Notes for many years, I’ve learned a lot
Thanks for watching, I love it when people find new uses for things they thought they already knew!
Excellent video. I learned more about ways to use the Notes app. I have a special request. Would you be able to do videos on integrating Siri shortcuts with the Notes app? I have clients that are visually impaired and they want a writing system. I have integrated some shortcut functionality with the Notes app to create basic notes, but it would be nice to know of some more hands-free note taking options. Thank you! 🙏🏿
Great suggestion! I'll add it to my list of videos to film, but I warn you, that list is pretty long at this point. And I've got a handful of priority videos for the next couple of months. But it's definitely something I will work on.
@ no problem. I appreciate you considering my suggestion! 🙏🏿
Your videos are awesome. Learning so much as I go through the videos. Your voice is so nice to listen to as well
Glad you are enjoying the tips... and the voice! Any topics you'd like me to cover in the future?
Thank you for your very informative video. I’ve been searching for a good note-taking app for quite some time. You showed me how to use one I already have but didn't know much about. Subscribed!
So glad to hear about it! Keep your eyes open for the other videos in this series that will fill in the other gaps to make this note-taking app a game changer!
Please let me know if you have any questions or need any additional help.
Your videos are always helpful. Thanks!
I'm so glad you got good value out of it! Let me know if there's anything you'd like to know more about!
Hi, this is very informative video.. Appreciate your efforts. Please make this type of Playlist for Calendar & Reminder. Waiting for this and your next video
Thanks...🙂
Yes, I’m planning on doing a playlist for calendars, reminders, photos, messages, and a whole ton of other apps. Please let me know if there’s anything else you’d like me to teach.
@@TheMacWhisperer Thanks for your reply.. I am using Notes, Calendar and reminder for improve my work efficiency daily...IOS 18 has many new features for these apps. Will wait for your videos....
I’m a new listener. I love your content ❤. How do I save the content of my Notes to Dropbox, I know it saves it to ICloud but if I don’t have enough storage I want to save it on Dropbox. Thank you😊
You'd have to manually export each and every note into Dropbox to make that work, which is time-consuming and unwieldy. Notes is made to sync with iCloud, and it doesn't take up that much space.
In my personal opinion, if you don't have enough storage on iCloud, get more ($12-$120 a year is worth its weight in gold). It means you never have to worry about things getting lost because you have plenty of space to backup all your devices, everything synchronizes automatically across all of your devices, and it does its job without you needing to do anything.
If you want to move it all to Dropbox, it will remove it from being synched in Notes, and won't really save you any storage space.
You would need to go to each note, click Share > Click Print > Click Share again to make it a PDF > and Point it to Dropbox.
It's going to be a long arduous task that you'll have to do on a regular basis, or just pay an extra $12 or so a year to Apple and call it a day.
I always find it funny how much work, time, and effort people will put themselves through to save the small price of increasing their iCloud storage space.
Just my 2 cents.
Ok, I will add more iCloud storage. Thank you. Transferring each note is going to be daunting and time consuming. Thanks for the insight.
Believe me, it will pay dividends that you aren't even aware of to simplify your life in this way. If you lean into the Apple ecosystem and how iCloud works, it makes everything simpler, especially when dealing with notes and photos.
Very Good Info. I guess after all these years I'll start using this app better. Thank You!
You’ll be surprised at how good the app really is. I have a client who was a diehard pages fanatic and when I flipped her over to Notes after 10 years of talking to her about it she was blown away by how much she could do in such an easier way than you do with most word processers.
Keep watching, there’s more to come.
Great video. So easy to follow -very detailed! I have been using notes for a while (insteqd of notion) but still learned something in this first video. I am looking forward to more. One QUESTION: I upgraded to IOS 18.1 and have iPhone 13 Pro Max and have 149.44 GB of memory available, but I didn’t get the invite to the Ai waitlist. Do you know what I can do to get Ai for my phone?
Apple Intelligence will only be available for the iPhone 15 Pro and later. The 13 Pro doesn't have the capable processor and resources to manage AI being done on your phone. Apple's never going to allow Apple Intelligence on any earlier phones than the 15 Pro, so the only way you can do it is by getting yourself a more current phone.
Sorry 🤷♂️
@@TheMacWhisperer Thank you!
Curious what version iOS you are on.
Great tips and illustrations. I am planning on keeping an eye out for your videos. Thx
I always keep my phone on the latest operating system... and in this case I am on the iOS 18.2 beta that was released about a week ago. Many of the things you will see on my phone are either because I'm on the beta, I'm on Apple intelligence, or because I'm on an iPhone 16 pro. What phone/operating system are you on?
I don’t run betas, but I do like to stay updated. So I am 18.1
@@adco I totally get it. I run betas specifically so that I can be ahead of other people's issues and know how to solve them. If I weren't in this business, I'd stay a million miles away from the beta releases because they kill my battery life and have a million little glitches and bugs that sometimes never get worked out.
Love the video, thanks! But still can't use Apple Notes: we can't export notes :(
You absolutely can export notes. You can export them to a PDF by clicking on the share button, then click print, then click share again you will see the option to save it as a PDF and then you can export it anywhere you like.
My biggest question is, can we use Apple notes to take notes for school or college? i mean can we? i ask because idk if its a good idea or only for taking short notes
I've been using Apple Notes to take notes for any classes I've been on for motre than a decades now.
I've used it at live seminars and conferences, and within classes. I can do it right from my phone, or from an iPad or computer... and it's not just for simple short notes. If you look at some of the formatting tools that I shared in the second video (th-cam.com/video/VCeKovPCm0I/w-d-xo.html) you will see that you can really make it into a robust note. Not just a couple of quick lines.
And if you have an iPad and a pencil, it's even better.
Hope that helps!
Thanks for your excellent videos. Is there a way to watch and listen without the background music? It’s really distracting. And no, I can’t chew gum whilst walking either 😢
You know it's hard to please everyone.
When I don't have music, people ask for it, when I do have music, people want it gone.
I'm trying to split the difference by finding music that isn't too distracting and isn't too loud, so that it doesn't have to compete with my voice.
It's a learning process, and I passed your notes on to my editors who hopefully will address it in our future videos. Thanks for watching!
Great guide, lots of interesting tips, Thanks
Glad you got great value out of it! Any takeaways you'd like to share?
I noticed that your notes app has phone recordings and also a different selection on the bottom. I use the iPhone iPhone 14 Pro Max do I need to upgrade my iPhone to the iPhone 15 to use Apple Intelligence?
My phone is on iOS 18.2, which is the beta release. iOS 18.1 was fully released last Monday.
Apple Intelligence is a part of iOS 18.1, but Apple Intelligence is only available on the iPhone 15 Pro and later...
So while you can upgrade to the latest operating system, the iPhone 14 will not get the Apple Intelligence features...
In spite of many people asking and assuming that eventually Apple will change that, I'll straight up tell you that Apple will never change that decision, and Apple Intelligence will never come to any phone earlier than the iPhone 15 Pro.
If Apple Intelligence is important to you, you may want to upgrade... That being said, please note that Apple Intelligence will be rolled out over the next 12-18 months, with new features being released every update... So a lot of people have decided to wait to upgrade to a newer phone and tell all of the Apple Intelligence features are fully released sometime next year.
@ thank you and thank you for all your help and great information.
Excellent, great stuff. Thank you.
Can I do the same thing with my emails????😮
I'm glad you liked it!
I guess I need to know what you're referring to? Organizing things cleanly and simply? Yes, you can... just takes more work with email.
This is so very useful video thank you very much
Glad it could help you out! Any specific takeaways you'd like to share?
A hit, once again! 🎉
Thanks for watching again...
You know I'm making them just for you, right?
Any particular takeaways you'd like to share from this one?
congratulation, 100 video!
Thanks, it's a huge milestone... but I've definitely upped my release schedule recently, so I'm now eyeing the 200th video... Any recommendations or suggestions on the topic?
Value, thanks!
You bet! Any specific Takeaway you’d like to share?
Thank you 👍
You are very welcome! What was your biggest lesson?
Very nice boss
First turn I know about making pic small or to use _ with hashtag
Keep doing boss waiting for new video
Thanks! I'm glad you found the tips useful and appreciate the support. Any specific tips or tools you’d like me to explore more fully?
This was the first video in the series did you catch the second one I released yesterday?
The third and fourth will be released this weekend.
GREAT video! I don’t see the paper clip or AI in my notes…HELP? I have an iPhone 12 Pro Max and IOS 17.6.1 Cheers ~ Alan
Hi Alan. I always keep my phone on the latest operating system and usually on the upcoming beta operating system. This video was shot with iOS 18, which your iPhone 12 is fully capable of supporting.
My phone is currently on iOS 18.2, so you might see some differences, and since I have an iPhone 16 Pro, you'll also see Apple Intelligence features that are not available on the 12 Pro. Hope that answers your questions!
For sure the first thing you should do is get your phone up to iOS 18.1... the current operating system.
I don’t have the icloud folder in my notes app
- If you don't have any folders, you won't see the iCloud folder.
- If your iCloud account is named something else (like.Mac or Apple), it will say that instead.
- If you are not using iCloud to synchronize your Apple Notes, it won't say iCloud, it will say Google or something else.
If the latter is the case, you should definitely consider migrating those notes into the Apple ecosystem.
For more information, go to Settings
Very useful stuff....
Glad you think so! What's the most useful part to you?
I used Notes to save everything. As an engineering student while working in finance profession, and having several hobbies, my Notes weight 20 GB on iCloud. Eventually, I will need searching TH-cam for how to down size Notes and backup Notes to an alternative memory.
Rather than trying to export them my recommendation is to go into your notes click in the search field and search for notes with attachments. Those are the ones that are bringing up the larger size. You can probably export or delete some of those to bring the size down.
Moving forward, I recommend people copy and paste the text of Attachments rather than the attachments themselves whenever possible. Adding the attachment is a great function but overused creates a slow and clunky experience. Copying and pasting text directly into the notes app eliminate the weight issue and allows it to operate more fully.
There are a lot of ways you can export your notes library by saving things as PDFs or moving them off of the program so that you don’t have to Stop using it all together.
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Here’s one of my notes;
- [ ] Can’t move info from one note to another - have to copy paste and then go back and delete
- [ ] Can’t manually change order of notes in All iCloud list. Very limited sorting options.
- [ ] Can’t write in different colors and highlight
- [ ] Does not play with Reminders app
- [ ] Cannot highlight text
- [ ] Cannot change text color
I don't disagree with any of the notes you have, but I will address them here:
1. Cutting and pasting is an efficient way to move things from one note to another. If you cut the entire note, you won't need to go back and delete it because it will delete itself - notes don't allow empty notes to exist when there's no text on it.
2. If you pin a note, you can change the order by putting the important ones up top. Otherwise, you can sort by date added, date edited, or by title. If you want more manual options, create a folder and put the important notes into that folder, so that you know where they are.
3. As of iOS 18, you can highlight on the phone, you could always change colors from the computer.
4. Everybody wants notes and reminders to be combined, but to me they are two very different programs. Notes is for things that I want to refer back to and store forever. Reminders is for things I want to accomplish. There actually is a way to link them together, if you have a note and you click on the share button you can share it directly to reminders, so that the reminders app will prompt you about that note at a specific date and time. If you want the notes that you create in notes to be in reminders, you should just put them in reminders to begin with.
5. As I said in #3, as of iOS 18 you can highlight notes on your phone or iPad.
6. As I said in #3, "If you want to change the text color, it has to be done on the computer. Yes, that's annoying... but it's really the only major issue on your list that I don't have a solution for unless you just do it from the computer. (And if you don't have an Apple computer, I understand your frustration... but if you do, you have many more formatting and adjustment tools there that will transfer directly over to the iPhone and iPad Notes app.)
Thanks for sharing your notes about notes. Let me know if I can help you address any of those issues or give additional tools.
And if you want to know more about my thoughts around notes and reminders being combined, check out this video: th-cam.com/video/jMfw1TWbr8o/w-d-xo.html
Wow! Your screen grab of your phone (I assume it's yours?) shows 413 unread emails, 50 missed phone calls and 36 unread text messages?! Dude, that would drive me crazy. Good content here, though 😆
The joke about that is, at any given time I'm usually pretty close to 0 on all my notifications. But, when I film videos (which I do all day once a week), I turn all of my notifications off so that I can focus and work. It's kind of like you caught me with my pants down. By the point in the day this video was shot I was behind on EVERYTHING.
But within an hour of finishing shooting I was caught up, but the screen capture recorded my dirty little secret.
It's funny because I know people who have tens of thousands of unread messages and hundreds of missed phone calls - so I know what you mena about it driving you crazy!!!!
That was just a few hours of notifications for me.
Oh my gosh! Great value in this video - but 3K notes! 400+ unread emails… I’m taking a Xanax just looking at your files. 😅 All good info though. Quantity is only a problem if it’s disorganized.
What’s the alternative, other than to let this stuff run you vs you run this stuff.
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Click the gear icon at the bottom right of the video (when you hover your mouse over it) and select playback speed. Try three-quarter or one-half speed.
Thank you for that. It's pretty funny because half of the viewers say I move too slow and the other half say I move too fast. Adjusting the speed is the way to find your proper pacing. Thanks for helping out!
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